A DRIVER, who is suspected of intentionally ploughing his container trailer into a group of six people, killing two of them, in a lethal incident of road rage in Nanshan District, has been caught in Xinjiang and brought back to Shenzhen, Nanshan police said Wednesday.

Jin Ximing, the driver of a container trailer bearing Hong Kong and Guangdong registration plates, was caught by Shenzhen police in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Oct. 8, 18 days after he fled Shenzhen following the incident, which started from slight contact between his truck and a car.

The police said the container trailer driven by Jin, 42, a native of Harbin City in Heilongjiang Province, slightly grazed a car on Qianhai Road in Nanshan on the evening of Sept. 21. Jin was looking to drive away when the driver of the car and its five passengers got off to talk to him.

Without provocation, he allegedly drove his truck into the group. A businessman surnamed Yao, who was among the passengers of the car, was killed instantly.

Another passenger surnamed Chen, died in hospital. Two other people were injured. Jin then allegedly forced the car onto the greenbelt at the center of the road.

However, an earlier report by the Southern Metropolis Daily had said Jin knocked down three people first, killing Yao and Chen and seriously injuring a third, and then backed up and tried to run over the remaining three, injuring the fourth victim in the process.

It took several days for Shenzhen police to identify the container trailer and Jin as the witnesses provided a wrong plate number for the trailer. Jin was not identified until Sept. 25 when his truck was found near a factory in Cuigang Industrial Zone in Fuyong Subdistrict, Bao'an District.

A group of Shenzhen policemen traveled to Yunnan, Hunan, Beijing, Heilongjiang, and Xinjiang during the National Day holidays to hunt down Jin. He was apprehended in a hotel in Urumqi, Xinjiang on the night of Oct. 8.

Editor: Yan